Timothy Miller wrote:
Jeff Garzik pointed out that we didn't mention VESA. All I know about VESA is that it's some x86 BIOS way of doing beyond-VGA resolutions.
Not just that. It was also used to provide a standard way to do DDC and power management and stuff like that. The VBE (VESA BIOS extension) standaard is freely downloadable from VESA:
http://www.vesa.org/public/VBE/vbe3.pdf
It's version 3 which as far as I'm aware isn't an important one. VBE 2.0 is what everyone used to care about. That standard has always floated around the net as a flat ASCII text file:
http://thorkildsen.no/faqsys/docs/vesa20.txt
What I need to know is what kind of hardware support is necessary for it. Anyone have a clue or can find out for me?
Personally, no idea, but I assume that Linux's fb maintainer (CCed again) might have an opinion / wishlist from vesafb.
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